The European Commission (EC) has signed the €150M grant agreement to continue funding the Graphene Flagship's research and innovation on graphene and related materials from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2023. With this signature, the EC continues its commitment to support the €1B Flagship project, which began in 2013.
Active as of 1 December 2019, EOSC Enhance is tasked with improving and enhancing the discoverability of the EOSC services and resources, further developing and augmenting the EOSC catalogue, and enriching the EOSC data offering by connecting the thematic clusters and clouds currently in development. These activities highly complement the foundational work on the EOSC Portal done by EOSC-hub and OpenAIRE-Advance and its other partners eInfraCentral and EOSCpilot.
From 22 to 23 January 2020 the Comenius University of Bratislava hosted its first ENLIGHT Director’s Meeting with representatives from all nine partner institutions
Two of our SINReM students won the Sustainable Development Goals Copernicus Hackathon. As part of the four-headed ExaMine team, SINReM students Mridul Pareek (India) and Antonio Mires Valdez (Peru) won the first prize with the solution their team put forward for the challenge ‘Raw materials in a circular economy’. Four other SINReM students also participated: Daniel Sandoval, Debabrata Ghosh, Liz Mariana Lobo and Anastasia Yuandy.
After more than three years of research, innovation and development, ADAS&ME (Adaptive ADAS to support incapacitated drivers Mitigate Effectively risks through tailor made HMI under automation) H2020 project consortium including the NUI Galway and Uppsala University organized its final event in Barcelona.
On 4 and 5 December 2019 over a hundred representatives from the partner universities of the ENLIGHT consortium came together to work on their proposal, for the call for European Universities, that is due by the end of February 2020.
The REACT consortium including the Universities of Galway and Uppsala reunited on 21 and 22 November 2019 at Parque Científico de Madrid for its second General Assembly hosted by Albufera Energy Storage. The efforts during this two-day meeting focused on the pilot’s technical specifications, the planning of infrastructure and the energy use information gathering.
Nine universities – rectors, staff and student representatives from all over Europe have formally launched the 'ENLIGHT' consortium. ENLIGHT will promote quality of life, sustainability & global engagement through higher education transformation.
End of August 2019, representatives from nine European universities met up to form a new cooperation and kick-off a joint application in the framework of the second call for European Universities Networks.
The Marie Skłodowska - Curie European Training Networks AEGIS and TASPPI organized the common international conference “New Frontiers in Structure-Based Drug Discovery” on September 23-25, 2019 at Convitto della Calza in Florence, Italy.
Consortium members including Ghent University, University of Groningen, and Uppsala University participated throughout the Autism Europe Congress 2019 on 13th – 15th September, delivering keynotes, moderating sessions and as part of the scientific committee.
